[kultured_yobbo]

I absolutely agree with you. I love Calibre, and have used it for over three years, but the latest version 4.0 has been stripped so many essential features, it is like having an arm or two tied behind your back. Like, you, to do my work, I had to downgrade to version 3.48 and will keep using for as long as possible.

The biggest thing for me is, in using ebooks for my research, and quoting texts from them, I used the "Position number" box at the top left hand corner in my sources list to quote exactly where in the ebook I found the quoted text. Now this, among so many other useful (seemingly so-called distracting but certainly not for me) features has been stripped. The only reference I see to possibly quoting the position of text, is what I see as the all too inaccurate percentage. The thing is, in a typical ebook, to progress by just one percent, usually takes several pages. In short, this is nowhere near as precise the excellent old "Position number" box at the top left corner.

Also, when I searched for text in the ebook, the wonderful old "Position number" box, would, as I scrolled through the instances of that text, display the exact position of that text.

Don't get me wrong. I love Calibre, but the good old "Position number" box was absolutely indispensable to me. Maybe, like other features now, it could be hidden, but really, I would much prefer the option for it to be permanently there. As I said, I found nothing about the old interface distracting, but the new interface to me strikes me as one that is, unnecessarily minimalist. That is why I had to downgrade.

One more thing, I found at times, that version 4.0 was hogging the CPU -- like up to 70%, which I never had with versions 3.

Cheers